Art brut
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
Art brut
- Here are entered works on crude and inexperienced drawings, paintings, and doodlings of the mentally ill, the naive and the primitive--people who have escaped cultural conditioning and social conformism.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85007984
- info:lc/authorities/sh85007984
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85007984#concept
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Variants
- Brut, Art
- Psychiatric art
- Psychotic art
- Raw art
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Sources
- found: AAT (art brut: use for art where the artistic impulse appears in a raw, uncivilized state, particularly work created by people isolated from society such as prisoners and the mentally ill. Use amateur art when referring to any art created by nonprofessionals; UF art of the insane; art, outsider; art, psychiatric; art, psychotic; art, raw; brut, art; insane, art of the; l'art brut; outsider art; psychiatric art; psychotic art; raw art)
LC Classification
- N7432.5.A78
General Notes
- Here are entered works on crude and inexperienced drawings, paintings, and doodlings of the mentally ill, the naive and the primitive--people who have escaped cultural conditioning and social conformism.
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1994-06-22: revised
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